Jim Foley's Reading list

Database Connection Constants (ONLINE SERVER) Jan'23 ‘Love is my Vocation: The Story of The Sisters of St. Ann in British Columbia, Alaska and Yukon’ by Sisters of St. Ann (1960)

{ 1858 - 1958 }

Dec'22 ‘The Philosophy of Modern Song’ by Bob Dylan (2022)

{ Essays on 66 songs. playlist interview }

Dec'22 ‘Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld’ by T. J. English (2022)

{ "Whatever you say, say nothing" [Seamus Heaney] }

Oct'22 ‘Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir’ by Jann S. Wenner (2022)

{ whew }

Aug'22 ‘Canadian Spy Story: Irish Revolutionaries and the Secret Police -Part One & Part Two’ by David A Wilson (2022)

{ Irish nationalism in Canada }

Aug'22 ‘The Wolfpack: The Millennial Mobsters Who Brought Chaos and the Cartels to the Canadian Underworld’ by Peter Edwards & Luis Horacio Najera (2021)

Jun'22 ‘This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life’ by Stefanie Green, MD (2022)

{ Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), set in Victoria BC, I'm not sure. }

Apr'22 ‘The Ministry for the Future’ by Kim Stanley Robinson (2020)

{ "We can't imagine the suffering of people of the future, so not much gets done on their behalf... narcissism." }

Mar'22 ‘Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now’ by John Doerr (2021)

{ "Fight or Flight? flight is not an option- we cannot outrun global warming - we're
going to have to fight this one out with every weapon we can muster."
"fairy tales of eternal economic growth" [Greta Thunberg] }

Feb'22 ‘What Strange Paradise’ by Omar El Akkad (2021)

{ "And yet there's an emptiness, something missing." }

Feb'22 ‘The Nature of Canada’ by Colin M. Coates & Graeme Wynn (2019)

{ "Diseases remind us that national boundaries are often of little significance for environmental forces" ['Nature We Cannot See' (2019)]
"Ecological sense does not come easily to moderns and postmoderns" [quote by forest scientist Stan Rowe in 'Advocates and Activists' }

Nov'21 ‘Renegades: Born in the USA’ by Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen (2021)

{ Conversation #6 - 'Wrestling with Ghosts' }

Nov'21 ‘Forever Young: A Memoir’ by Hayley Mills (2021)

Nov'21 ‘Indian School Days’ by Basil H. Johnston (1988)

{ 'Johnston has created a story that radiates compassion, humor, and hope.' }

Aug'21 ‘Qigong Meditation: Embryonic Breathing - Part I: Foundations’ by Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming (2003)

Apr'21 ‘How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need’ by Bill Gates (2021)

Apr'21 ‘The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet’ by Michael E. Mann (2021)

{ "the climate crisis" }

Mar'21 ‘Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson’ by Annye C Anderson and Preston Lauterbach (2020)

{ The life and afterlife of bluesman Robert Johnson (1911-1938) as told by his nonagenarian stepsister. }

Mar'21 ‘A Promised Land’ by Barack Obama (2020)

{ A mighty fine book. }

Feb'21 ‘Becoming (audiobook)’ by Michelle Obama (2018)

{ Michelle Obama's autobiography - read by her }

Jan'21 ‘To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest’ by Diana Beresford-Kroeger (2019)

{ biodiversity, “mother” trees, ... }

Dec'20 ‘The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz’ by Erik Larson (2020)

{ "On Winston Churchill's first day as the UK Prime Minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium." }

Oct'20 ‘Calico Joe’ by John Grisham (2012)

{ A novel }

Jul'20 ‘The Archipelago of Hope: Wisdom and Resilience from the Edge of Climate Change’ by Gleb Raygorodetsky (2017)

{ "What makes Indigenous communities uniquely valuable in the global quest for climate change solutions is that they are where the traditional practices & understanding of nature meet modern technology & scientific insights." }

Apr'20 ‘This Is All a Dream We Dreamed’ by Blair Jackson & David Gans (2015)

{ An oral history of the Grateful Dead }

Feb'20 ‘Year of the Rabbit’ by Tian Veasna (2019)

{ An intense graphic novel about a family living in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge Reign [1975-1979] }

Nov'19 ‘Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End’ by Atul Gawande (2014)

Sep'19 ‘Fearless as Possible (Under the Circumstances)’ by Denise Donlon (2016)

{ Denise Donlon is a Canadian business executive, television producer, author, public speaker, host, and member of the Order of Canada. }

Jun'19 ‘The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’ by Max Weber (1905)

{ A historical discussion, written in 1905, of the relationship between the ethics of ascetic Protestantism and the emergence of the spirit of modern Capitalism }

May'19 ‘Steve Jobs’ by Walter Isaacson (2011)

{ Steve Jobs [Feb 24 1955 - Oct 5 2011] }

Feb'19 ‘City in colour: rediscovered stories of Victoria's multicultural past’ by May Q. Wong (2018)

Oct'18 ‘Herbie Hancock: Possibilities’ by Herbie Hancock and Lisa Dickey (2014)

{ "I'd finally figured out how to turn my obstacle into an opportunity, which opened up a whole new world of possibility." }

Oct'18 ‘Been So Long: My Life and Music’ by Jorma Kaukonen (2018)

{ "Finns are a stoic lot." }

Sep'18 ‘Origin Story: A Big History of Everything’ by David Christian (2018)

{ "What will the Earth look like in two thousand years?" "Will human beings achieve a sustainable relationship with the biosphere?" }

Aug'18 ‘Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times’ by John Perry Barlow (2018)

Jul'18 ‘Paul Simon: The Life’ by Robert Hilburn (2018)

Jul'18 ‘The Life of Yogananda’ by Philip Goldberg (2018)